Maya Plisetskaya 100th Birthday Gala Concert

On November 20th, marking the centenary of Maya Plisetskaya's birth, the Bolshoi Theatre will pay tribute to the great ballerina with a grand gala concert. The evening will also honor her lifelong partner, the distinguished composer Rodion Shchedrin, who wrote the music for many of her ballets. In a poignant twist of fate, Shchedrin passed away just two and a half months before this date and the concert, whose program he had personally helped to plan. The gala will serve as a powerful opening chord for the grand "Maya and Rodion" festival, to be held in Moscow and St. Petersburg by the Bolshoi and Mariinsky theatres.

Part I

Georges Bizet - Rodion Shchedrin
"Carmen Suite"
Choreography by Alberto Alonso

Part II

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Princess Aurora's Adagio with Four Suitors
from the ballet "The Sleeping Beauty"
Choreography by Marius Petipa

Alexander Glazunov
Waltz from the ballet "Raymonda"
Choreography by Ekaterina Trunina
Performed by students of the Moscow State Academy of Choreography

Grand Pas from the ballet "Raymonda"
Choreography by Marius Petipa,
Staging by Yuri Grigorovich

Gustav Mahler
Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
"Dedication to Maya and Rodion"
Choreography by Patrick de Bana

Arif Melikov
Monologue and Adagio from the ballet "The Legend of Love"
Choreography by Yuri Grigorovich

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Pas de Deux from the ballet "Swan Lake"
Choreography by Marius Petipa,
Staging by Yuri Grigorovich

To the music of Alessandro Marcello - Johann Sebastian Bach
"Soul" (Dusha)
Choreography by Pavel Glukhov

Camille Saint-Saëns
"The Dying Swan"
Choreography by Mikhail Fokine

Maurice Ravel
"Boléro"
Choreography by Maurice Béjart

Maya Plisetskaya
Video recording

Fragments of memoirs by Maya Plisetskaya and Rodion Shchedrin